Barnett v. Getty Oil Company

266 So.2d 581 (1972)

Cecil E. BARNETT

v.

GETTY OIL COMPANY et al.

No. 46682.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1972.

Rehearing Denied October 2, 1972.

Boyd, Holifield & Harper, Laurel, for appellant.

Wells, Gerald, Brand, Watters & Cox, Scott P. Hemleben, Jackson, for appellees.

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Clarke County, Mississippi, wherein the chancellor dismissed the original bill of complaint filed by the appellant, Cecil E. Barnett, with prejudice. From that adverse decree the appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The record reveals that the mineral interests in…